Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Colorado St Rams will hit the highway to tackle the Nevada Wolfpack in a late night college football game on Saturday night.
This game will kick off from Nevada at 10:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPNU Television.
The point spread opened up with the home club Nevada Wolfpack as 22 point favorites with the over under coming in at 56.
The early money from the bettors has come on the side of the favorite as the Nevada Wolfpack is now favored by 23 ½ points. The total saw movement upward to 57.
Money line gamblers playing the favored Nevada Wolfpack will lay -1800 odds with the road underdog Colorado St Rams bringing back +1250 to pull off the upset victory without the need for taking the points.
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These two teams met last season at Colorado St and it was the Rams posting the 35-20 home victory as a 5 point underdog. Nevada really blew the game as they coughed up 5 turnovers to Colorado St’s 0.
It was a poor showing for the Colorado St Rams as they dropped a 24-3 decision to instate rival Colorado Buffaloes as an 11 ½ point underdog.
The Rams struggled big time on offense with just 245 yards and 1 of 12 on third down.
Freshman starting quarterback Pete Thomas hit on 24 of 33 passes for 196 yards with no touchdowns and three interceptions.
Colorado St had trouble running the football with only 49 yards on 25 carries for a 2.0 yards per carry average.
Defensively the Rams allowed 307 yards to Colorado. The Rams defended the run well by only allowing 3.3 yards per carry last week.
Chris Ault the head coach for Nevada will find 9 starters back on offense and 6 to their defense. The team finished 2009 with an 8-5 record and the team was pounded in the Hawaii Bowl by SMU 45-10 as a 12 point favorite.
Senior quarterback Colin Kaepernick returns under center for the Wolfpack. The signal caller hit on 58.9% of his passes in 2009 with 2052 yards 20 touchdowns and 6 picks. Kaepernick is a run threat and he was second on the team in rushing with 1351 yards and 16 touchdowns with a 7.3 yards per carry average.
Nevada is coming off a 49-24 victory against Eastern Washington of the FCS division. Kaepernick had nice game hitting on 26 of 37 for 306 yards two touchdowns and no picks. He also had 11 carries for 60 yards and 2 rushing touchdowns.
Senior running back Vai Taua led the club in rushing last season and produced a solid 7.8 yards per carry average. Last week he rushed 12 times for 51 yards and two touchdowns.
The clubs senior wide receiver Virgil Green had a big game last week with 7 catches for 144 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Nevada had another poor season on defense in 2009 allowing 29 points and 409 yards per game. The team allowed a very high 432 yards to an FCS school last week. Eastern Washington was able to rush for 162 yards on 28 carries for a 5.8 yards per rush average on the Wolfpack.
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